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Light orange

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Light orange (#FED8B1) is a light warm shade that appears across 12 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Paul Nash, Eliseu Visconti, and Richard Gerstl and the Art Nouveau tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Queen blue (#436B95), Eerie black (#1B1B1B), and Opal (#A8C3BC). The combination forms a soft, sunlit chord, built on a complementary hue split, spans a mixed temperature range, with a sharp light/dark contrast that lets the darker companions read as depth.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Girl with a pink feather palette card
Girl with a pink feather
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Salome palette card
Salome
Raphael Kirchner
Nude Female with Attendants palette card
Nude Female with Attendants
Paul Cezanne · 1880
The Model palette card
The Model
William Merritt Chase · 1887
Dark-blue mountains and buildings on the hiil palette card
Dark-blue mountains and buildings on the hiil
Nicholas Roerich · 1940
Merci I palette card
Merci I
Raphael Kirchner · 1916

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light orange

6 palettes where Light orange appears prominently — one per artist.

Paul Nash Palette 1 - Luminous Champagne

Paul Nash

28.6% Light orange

Eliseu Visconti Palette 1 - Gleaming Champagne

Eliseu Visconti

26.7% Light orange

Richard Gerstl Palette 1 - Gleaming Champagne

Richard Gerstl

23.4% Light orange

Umberto Veruda Palette 6 - Muted Vermillion

Umberto Veruda

23.3% Light orange

Miguel Cabrera Palette 1 - Pale Apricot

Miguel Cabrera

22.3% Light orange

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Palette 7 - Muted Tawny

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

20.4% Light orange

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